[Users] How to See Ovirt Console From a Remote Windows Host

[Doron Fediuck]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Forrest" <nobozo at gmail.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:06:56 PM
> Subject: [Users] How to See Ovirt Console From a Remote Windows Host
> 
> I know that this is simple for some of you, but I also
> know from Googling around that lots of people have had
> trouble seeing their ovirt console from a remote Windows
> host. Below I describe what finally worked for me. I hope
> this helps somebody avoid wasting as much time as I did
> today.
> 
> I'm a fairly experienced VMWare user who's learning ovirt.
> I just installed an all-in-one ovirt server and copied a
> CentOS 6.5 iso into it. I then tried to boot a new VM
> but soon learned that console access is different in ovirt
> than on VMWare.
> 
> I then spent over an hour trying the various documented
> ways to view a remote console using Spice on my Windows 7
> desktop. I even tried using a Linux VM to see if the Firefox
> plugin for Spice would work. Nothing.
> 
> What finally worked was installing the virt-viewer Windows
> client (http://virt-manager.org/download/). Then, I opened
> the ovirt Administration Portal in Firefox running on my
> Windows 7 desktop. I created a new VM and configured it
> the way I wanted. Then, from the "Virtual Machines" tab, I started
> the new VM. Pretty soon the little console icon turned green so
> I clicked on it. I got the prompt from Firefox asking me what
> app I wanted to associate with the ".vv" URL that opened when
> I clicked on the console icon. I browsed around and selected
> 
> \Program Files\VirtViewer\bin\remote-viewer.exe
> 
> which is from the virt-viewer client package I installed above.
> I told Firefox to always use this app for this kind of file.
> 
> This works great! I was able to boot the CentOS system and
> install it with no problems.
> 
> Good luck!
> Jon Forrest

Thanks Jon for writing this.
It's always useful for folks seeking help.
Generally speaking, starting version 3.3 you should have HTML 5 support,
which means a new tab will open with the VM's console.
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/SpiceHTML5